| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures | Holocene | 1998 | 728 |
| 2 | 'Little Ice Age' summer temperature variations: their nature and relevance to recent global warming trends | Holocene | 1993 | 663 |
| 3 | Estimating carbon accumulation rates of undrained mires in Finland–application to boreal and subarctic regions | Holocene | 2002 | 611 |
| 4 | The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies | Holocene | 1995 | 602 |
| 5 | High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects | Holocene | 2009 | 588 |
| 6 | Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change | Holocene | 1997 | 579 |
| 7 | Sun, ocean, climate and atmospheric 14CO2 : an evaluation of causal and spectral relationships | Holocene | 1993 | 575 |
| 8 | Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I: pollen from large sites REVEALS regional vegetation composition | Holocene | 2007 | 533 |
| 9 | Glacier and lake-level variations in west-central Europe over the last 3500 years | Holocene | 2005 | 532 |
| 10 | The use of Rarefaction Analysis for Estimating Palynological Richness from Quaternary Pollen-Analytical Data | Holocene | 1992 | 508 |
| 11 | Evidence of Lateglacial and Holocene climatic change and human impact in eastern Anatolia: high-resolution pollen, charcoal, isotopic and geochemical records from the laminated sediments of Lake Van, Turkey | Holocene | 2003 | 497 |
| 12 | Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change | Holocene | 2011 | 452 |
| 13 | Landscape openness and pollen records: a simulation approach | Holocene | 1999 | 423 |
| 14 | A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation | Holocene | 2014 | 404 |
| 15 | Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation II: all you need is LOVE | Holocene | 2007 | 370 |
| 16 | A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian summer monsoon since the last deglaciation | Holocene | 2003 | 353 |
| 17 | Testing the assumptions of fire-history studies: an examination of modern charcoal accumulation in Yellowstone National Park, USA | Holocene | 1996 | 343 |
| 18 | A 7400-year tree-ring chronology in northern Swedish Lapland: natural climatic variability expressed on annual to millennial timescales | Holocene | 2002 | 342 |
| 19 | Three decades of dating recent sediments by fallout radionuclides: a review | Holocene | 2008 | 334 |
| 20 | July mean temperature and annual precipitation trends during the Holocene in the Fennoscandian tree-line area: pollen-based climate reconstructions | Holocene | 2001 | 333 |
| 21 | The intercept is a poor estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age | Holocene | 2004 | 327 |
| 22 | Interpretation of the charcoal record in forest soils: forest fires and their production and deposition of macroscopic charcoal | Holocene | 2000 | 324 |
| 23 | A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages | Holocene | 2005 | 318 |
| 24 | Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals | Holocene | 2002 | 310 |
| 25 | Recent increases in species richness and shifts in altitudinal distributions of Norwegian mountain plants | Holocene | 2003 | 310 |
| 26 | A sensitive high-resolution record of late Holocene climatic change from a raised bog in northern England | Holocene | 1994 | 309 |
| 27 | Synchronous Holocene climatic oscillations recorded on the Swiss Plateau and at timberline in the Alps | Holocene | 1998 | 309 |
| 28 | The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region: new high-resolution crater-lake sediment data from central Turkey | Holocene | 2001 | 308 |
| 29 | A 1400-year high-resolution record of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic and Asia | Holocene | 2002 | 297 |
| 30 | A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe | Holocene | 1998 | 294 |
| 31 | Holocene glacier fluctuations of Flatebreen and winter-precipitation changes in the Jostedalsbreen region, western Norvay, based on glaciolacustrine sediment records | Holocene | 2001 | 275 |
| 32 | Global Surface Air Temperature Variations During the Twentieth Century: Part 1, Spatial, Temporal and Seasonal Details | Holocene | 1992 | 269 |
| 33 | Relationships between calibrated ages and depth in stratigraphical sequences: an estimation procedure by mixed-effect regression | Holocene | 2005 | 269 |
| 34 | New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates | Holocene | 2001 | 268 |
| 35 | A new approach to calculating Holocene winter precipitation by combining glacier equilibrium-line altitudes and pine-tree limits: a case stud from Hardangerjokulen, central southern Norway | Holocene | 1996 | 263 |
| 36 | Holocene glacial and climatic variations on Spitsbergen, Svalbard | Holocene | 1997 | 249 |
| 37 | The Postglacial record of environmental history from Lago di Pergusa, Sicily | Holocene | 2001 | 249 |
| 38 | A chironomid-based Holocene summer air temperature reconstruction from the Swiss Alps | Holocene | 2003 | 248 |
| 39 | Relationships between charcoal particles in air and sediments in west-central Siberia | Holocene | 1998 | 245 |
| 40 | A high-resolution stalagmite record of the Holocene East Asian monsoon from Mt Shennongjia, central China | Holocene | 2010 | 242 |
| 41 | Pollen and charcoal in lake sediments compared with historically documented forest fires in southern Switzerland since AD 1920 | Holocene | 1998 | 233 |
| 42 | Chronology of the Palmer Deep site, Antarctic Peninsula: a Holocene palaeoenvironmental reference for the circum-Antarctic | Holocene | 2001 | 233 |
| 43 | Using the historical atmospheric lead-deposition record as a chronological marker in sediment deposits in Europe | Holocene | 2001 | 230 |
| 44 | A general model of paraglacial landscape response | Holocene | 2002 | 229 |
| 45 | Size parameters, size-class distribution and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal: relevance for fire reconstruction | Holocene | 2003 | 229 |
| 46 | Mire-development pathways and palaeoclimatic records from a full Holocene peat archive at Walton Moss, Cumbria, England | Holocene | 2000 | 228 |
| 47 | Century scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest | Holocene | 2000 | 226 |
| 48 | The Dahomey Gap: an abrupt climatically induced rain forest fragmentation in West Africa during the late Holocene | Holocene | 2005 | 225 |
| 49 | Seven tephra isochrones in Scotland | Holocene | 1995 | 221 |
| 50 | The International Tree-Ring Data Bank: an enhanced global database serving the global scientific community | Holocene | 1997 | 215 |
